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US President Barack Obama has issued an Executive Order, decreeing that “Government information shall be managed as an asset throughout its life cycle to promote interoperability and openness, and, wherever possible and legally permissible, to ensure that data are released to the public in ways that make the data easy to find, …

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  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    Right

    http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/08/04/the-washington-post-on-the-most-transparent-administration-ever/

    The Washington Post has published an article on an analysis of annual reports from government agencies the Post did, which is further proof—despite President Barack Obama’s promise of unprecedented transparency in government—he has presided over a government that in some ways is more secretive than ever before.

    Sure, random press releases, binder-thick bureaucratese (job-destroying!) as well as detailed reports on politicking will be "machine-readable". That helps no-one.

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    1. Justice
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      Re: Riiiiiiiiiiiight

      'transparent'

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    U-turn?

    "Obama orders gov data must be 'open and machine-readable'..."

    Isn't that what Bradley Manning and Julian Assange got into trouble for?

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    1. Stuart Van Onselen
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      "It's not illegal when the President does it."

      - Richard M. Nixon

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